1. Pelosi's words are being dismissed as a gaffe, a sign of verbally ineptness or lack of thought. But there's something more interesting and important at work about not understanding what Black Lives Matter means.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1384624338683502592 …
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3. It's easy to see Pelosi's logic here. The language of sacrifice & martyrdom was how the civil rights movement steeled itself in the face of violence. Floyd energized a new civil rights movement. But the horror of Floyd's murder is that he wasn't a martyr but a ordinary person
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4. The radical claim of Black Lives Matter is that all Black lives matter, not just the heroes & the martyrs. This is in the face of a white supremacy where it's all too easy for any Black life, not just the heroes & martyrs, to face state violence. Pelosi's words obscured that
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5. Pelosi's attempt at a false consolation point to a fissure between the Democratic leadership and the social movements that continue to press for change. More thoughts on this (and other things) here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/how-not-to-mourn-george-floyd …
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It would be great if left Twitter devoted as much time respecting Pelosi for holding a narrow majority of House Dems together to pass progressive bills on voting, labor, and more as it does bashing her when she makes a dumb remark or two
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She is also echoing the language of her Catholic religion in relation to matyrs
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I think the language naturally springs out of her Catholic worldview, as well as the civil rights movement, which makes it heartfelt. It does not translate well as a sound bite separated from that deep moral tradition, though, which is the Democratic Party's ongoing problem.
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I made this point earlier, albeit more crudely, as an expression of my anger over her wordshttps://twitter.com/LpsdlwyerW/status/1384624853332992006?s=19 …
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